Tuesday, April 6, 2010

2nd Thursday Poetry Series at Bihl Haus features Jim La Villa-Havelin, Josie Mixon and Carmen Tafolla, April 8, 2010

 From Bihl Haus Arts:
"Come Spend Some Time with Jim"

This Second Thursday, April 8th, The Second Thursday Poetry Series at Bihl Haus Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg Road, features Poet Jim LaVilla-Havelin for this official 2010 National Poetry Month event.  The series includes a poetry workshop by Josie Mixon commencing at 6:00 p.m. followed by open mic at 7:00 p.m. with a special open-mic appearance by Carmen Tafolla.  Featured guest, Jim LaVilla-Havelin, will present at 8:00 p.m.

This poetry event is set against the exhibit "Wordworkers," pinhole photographs by Melanie Davis Rush of 22 of San Antonio's most important authors accompanied by poems in their own hand scrawled on the gallery's walls.  The exhibit was organized by Jim LaVilla-Havelin.

Poets Jim Brandenburg, Mo Saidi, Carolyn Sanchez and Josie Mixon are hosting this event co-sponsored by Bihl Haus Arts, a multi-disciplinary, non-profit arts organization, and Voices de la Luna, a quarterly poetry and arts magazine.

Jim LaVilla-Havelin is the author of three previous books of poems, Rites of Passage(Charon Press, 1969), What the Diamond Does Is Hold It All In (White Pine Press, 1978) and Simon’s Masterpiece (White Pine Press, 1983).  His poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies including: The Texas Poetry Calendar (Dos Gatos Press), Between Heaven and Texas (University of Texas Press), Is This Forever, or What? (Greenwillow Press), and On Turtle’s Back (White Pine Press).  LaVilla-Havelin has read his poems at coffee houses, bars, galleries, bookstores, universities, schools, theaters, and parks throughout the northeast, and Texas for over forty-five years.

LaVilla-Havelin is an arts administrator, educator and critic.  He is the Director of the Young Artist Programs at the Southwest School of Art and Craft, and the Coordinator of National Poetry Month events in San Antonio.  A fifteen year Texan, LaVilla-Havelin, lives with his wife, the artist Lucia LaVilla-Havelin, in Lytle, Texas.

Bihl Haus Arts will conclude it's celebration of National Poetry Month with the One-Day Friends Exhibit and Reading by John Philip Santos on Thursday, April 22nd.  He will read from his new memoir, "The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire (A Tejano Elegy)."

All events are free and open to the public.  Bihl Haus Arts is located on Fredericksburg Road across the street from Tip Top Cafe.  Parking is outside the gates of the Primrose Apartments, over flow parking is in the Redeemer Church parking lot on Fredericksburg Rd.@ Quentin.

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